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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener. - Joseph Addison It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour the dead only, these the living. - Antisthenes People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things. - Marcus Antonius (a/k/a Mark Antony or Mark Anthony) It hath been well said that the archflatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self. - Francis Bacon It has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self." - quoted in Francis Bacon, Essays (X, On Love) Give me flattery--flattery; the food of courts, that I may rock him, and lull him in the down of his desires. - Francis Beaumont He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XX, v. 19) For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. - Bible, Psalms (ch. V, v. 9) A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace. Strange and prodigal exuberance, which soon exhausts itself by flowing! - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. - Edmund Burke Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not. - Edmund Burke Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. - George Chapman Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope If you mean to profit, learn to praise. - Charles Churchill Flattery is the handmaid of the vices. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), De Amicitia (XXIV) Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person. - Jeremy Collier Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery may yet be flattered, indirectly by a well-seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals. - Charles Caleb Colton Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived. - Charles Caleb Colton Some indeed there are, who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are, nevertheless, to be flattered; by being told that they do despise it. - Charles Caleb Colton We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much; for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient. - Charles Caleb Colton Displaying page 1 of 6 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6
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